Moving-picture camera



A. D. RAY.

MOVING PICTURE CAMERA.

kAPPLICATION mep Aue. 13.1920.

1,369,127. Peeeneed Fee'zz, 1921.

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ATTORNEY A. D. RAY.

MovlNG PlcTuRe CAMERA.

APPLICATION FILED UGJB, |920) 1,369, '127, Patented Feb. 22, 1921.

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BY? n at d ATTORNEY PATENT OFFICE.

UNITED STATES v.AIJBFRI D. RAY, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO EMANUEL MANDELBAUM, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 22, 1921.

Application led August 13, 1920. Serial No. 403,288.

To all '1071 om, it may concer/n.:

Be it known that I, ALBERT D. RAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at 2224 East 89th street, in the city of Cleveland, 1n the county of Cuyahoga, State of Ohio, have .invented certain new and useful Improvements in MovingPicture Cameras, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements 1n moving picture cameras and the ob]ect of my invention is to so simplify and dispose the mechanism of the camera that the parts may be readily accessible and thus enable an amateur or an unskilled person to manipulate and remove any of the parts with ease.

A further object is to dispense with one of the pulleys on the main shaft' and its coacting belt, and pulley on the shaft of the film roll arbor, so as to enable the case containing the film at this side of the camera to be removed as readil as the film case on the opposite side. A still further object is to provide a central drive which will allow the balancing of the film rolls and their co-acting pairs of sprockets on each side of the machine without interfering with the position and mechanism by which movement is imparted to the shutter and at the Same time insure the freedom of movement of the film on the adjacent sprocket wheel and also eliminate any liability of oil beingv deposited npon the film fromL the driving gear of the shutter.

To effect these objects I have constructed and arranged the mechanism of my camera in the manner which I shall presently describe. n

Figure 1 is a plan View of my camera with the casing mostly in section taken through line l-l of Fig. 2.

Fig. `2 is an elevation with Vthe casing 1n section and the casing of the nearer film roll broken away to show the drive.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the various gears on the main driving arbor.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the gears on the main driving arbor.

Fig. 5 is a cross section on the line 5--5 of Fig. 3 looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Fig. 6 is a cross section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 3 looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

In the drawings like numerals indicate corresponding parts.

Heretofore it has been the custom in this class of machines to utilize two driving belts and their pulleys, the one being located on the outside of one of the film casings.

Consequently it was most inconvenient and very difficult when the side door was open to get at the lm as the belt had to be removed. It was also most difficult to get the reel back as the belt would be under tension. t is with the object of overcoming this inconvenience and difficulty particularly that my invention is designed.

1 is the main casing of the camera, 2 is the front or shutter plate which is broken away at the front side. As the shutter gear on such side does not form an feature of my present invention it is there ore unnecessary to show it.

3 is the side door on one side of the casing and 4 is the door on the opposite side. The doors 3 and 4 are hinged as shown and provided with the usual knobs 3 and 4l respectively.

5 is a double bracket secured to the inside of the rear wall of the casing 1. 6 is a pulley secured on an arbor 7 journaled in the bracket 5.

A clutch mechanism 8 is provided on each side of the pulley, one clutch mechanism being set reversely to the other clutch mechanism in order to insure that one film roll will rotate in the opposite direction to the other roll so that the film will pay off on one roll as it winds on the other.

This clutch mechanism I do not particularly describe as it forms no feature of my present invention. The film rolls (not shown) however are located in the casings 9 and 10 and the film A passes out through the guide 11 on the one side as indicated by arrow in Fig. 2.

12 is the main driving arbor which is ournaled in the bracket bearings 13 and 14 secured to the front plate 2, 15 is the main driving pulley secured on the shaft 12 connected by the belt 16 to the pulley 6 on the reel arbor 7. 17 is a double pin-socket secured at one end of the arbor 12. This sprocket engages the side perforation of the film A as is usual. 18 is a helical or Worm gear which is secured to the arbor 12 and meshes with the worm 19 on the end of the arbor 2O which is jonrnaled in the bearing 21 at the rear of the front plate 2 and from which the shutter mechanism is driven.

The helical gear 1S has a central web 1S having enlarged openings 182 and a substantiall)7 radial slot 183. 22 is a double gear pin wheel the two rims of wl ich are designed to mesh with the periorations oi the tilm Wi. Necessaril)v the two rims are at the same distance apart as the rims oii the gear pin wheel 17.

instead of the solid hub ci? the gear wheel 1T i use an open. hub 22. (lne ci? the bars 222 which extends through the slot ll-t of the helical gear 1S forms a driving' cennection from such gear. The other two bars of the open hub 22 extend through the openings 182.

rlie open hub 2Q is journaled at the ends on the eccentric bosses 13 and 1l such bosses being on a center to the rear et the center ot shaft 12.

The course of the film is indicated by ai rows in Figs. 1 and :2 where it will be en it passes spiralliv around a crees-red. 223 in its course from one gear pin wheel to the other.

It will be seen that the eccentric journal,- ing of the gear pin wheel 22 provides tor the free, movement or" the. lm without an)Y liability ot the gear wheel 18 srraping the ilm or oil being deposited from such gear wheel upon the tilm.

By reason of the bar Q2 slot 1S3 it will be evident that movement imparted to the helical gear 18 will be transmitted to the open hul 22 and that .t hub and gear rotate the bar Q2: caused to recipro fate radially in th By such a conetrnction as .l have des l am enabled to produce a camera ol" this type, of a maximum simplifit'jy and converience in both its construction and d rire.

Yllhat l claim as my inif'ention is:

1. ln a moving` picture camera, the coinbination with the reel arbor suitably,v journaled at the rear et the casing, the reels and casings therefor, the film and the palle).7 secured to the reel arbor between the reel casings oi" the main driving arbor journaled at the front of the casing. a pulley located cent-rally on the main driving arbor, a belt enginovinl in 'the connecting the two pulleys. and a double gear pin wheel secured on the main arbor at one end thereof, a helical driving` gear for the shutter mechanism, secured on the opposite end ot the main arbor, and a double gear pin wheel eccentrically journaled with respect to the center of the drivingv arbe-r and between the rims of which the helical gear is located and a driring means between the double gear pin wheel Yand the helical gear.

Q. ln a moving` picture camera, the (eiabination with the reel arbor suitably journaled at the re li the casing. the recta and casings ther r, the lilm and the iLnillr-i secured to the reel arbor between the reel casings. of the main driving arbor journaled at the lront o1 the casing. a pulley lo ated ceirtrallj,v en the arbor, a belt cmp i'iecting` the two pulleys and a double gear pin wheel secured on. the main arbor at' one end thereoli. a helical driving gear 'tor the shutter mechanism secured on the opposite end. ot the main arbor and pr. vided with a radial slot:I in the web thereof, and a double gear pin wheel eccentrieall;v `iouiaialcal on a bearing surrounding the main arbor. and provided with an open hub comprisiiu;l bars connecting the rims the/recit, one citi the barsl extending through and lesigned to reciprocate in the radial slot as the gear pin wheel is caused to rotate.

ln a camera. a lilai feed mechanism tomgrising` a main driving arbor 'troni which the reel arbor is adapted te be driven. lilm engaging sprockets through which said driving` arbor extendsr` one oif .said sprockets beinii eccentricalliv mounted to revolve aboutV a center ol'lfset; lrom the arbor center, a `rear wheel mounted on the arbor7 and a drive connection between said gear wheel and cccentric sprocket'.

ll. rlfhe combination with the st 'ut-turc recited in the preceding claim et a shutter operating mechanism inclutfling a shaft and a gear carried therebyY meshing with the gea wheel on the arbor.

.ln testimony whereot l atlix my signature.

ALBERT D. Ri/ir. 

